Christine May

{{Short description|Scottish politician}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2007}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Christine May | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | caption = | constituency_MP = [[Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Central Fife]] | parliament = Scottish | majority = | term_start = 1 May 2003 | term_end = 2 April 2007 | predecessor = [[Henry McLeish]] | successor = [[Tricia Marwick]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|03|23|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Dublin]], Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | party = [[Labour Co-operative]] }}

'''Christine May''' (born 23 March 1948, in [[Dublin]]) is a [[Scottish Labour]] [[Co-operative Party|Co-operative]] politician. She was the [[Member of the Scottish Parliament]] (MSP) for [[Central Fife (Scottish Parliament constituency)|Central Fife]] constituency from 2003 to 2007.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gordon Brown faces new by-election test after death of MP John MacDougall|date=14 August 2008|author=Kevin Schofield|url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/08/14/gordon-brown-faces-new-by-election-test-after-death-of-mp-john-macdougall-86908-20696370|accessdate=19 July 2010|publisher=[[Scottish Daily Record]]}}</ref>

Raised and educated in [[Dublin]], Christine worked in the catering industry in Dublin and then London, and first moved to Scotland in 1984, where she became a college lecturer.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

She was elected to the Central Fife seat after former [[First Minister of Scotland|First Minister]] [[Henry McLeish]] stood down as MSP following a scandal relating to the sub-letting of his constituency office – dubbed "[[Officegate]]" by the media. She had previously been leader of [[Fife Council]] from 1998. She represented a ward in [[Kirkcaldy]] as a councillor, and still lives in the town, which is just outside the Central Fife constituency. Her constituency office was based in [[Glenrothes]], adjacent to Fife Council's headquarters.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

In 2007, she lost her constituency to [[Scottish National Party|SNP]] politician [[Tricia Marwick]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/defeats-in-key-seats-but-still-a-victorious-evening-1.857356|accessdate=19 July 2010|title=Defeats in key seats, but still a victorious evening|newspaper=[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]|location=Glasgow|author=Martyn McLaughlin|date=4 May 2007}}</ref>

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== External links == * {{SP-MSP}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060104165932/http://www.christinemay.org.uk/ Christine May MSP] personal site * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060307104720/http://www.scottishlabour.org.uk/centralfife1/ Christine May MSP] profile at the site of Scottish Labour

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